新高考高中英语学习—读名篇7学知识,积累英语作文写作素材:第二次生命的启示(含生词、难句、语法等知识点拓展)

新高考高中英语学习—读名篇7学知识,积累英语作文写作素材:第二次生命的启示 （含生词、难句、语法等知识点拓展） 说明：这些都是精选的美文和分析（主要选自voa, bbc, cnn经典语篇）。 当然，我不仅仅是提供单纯的语篇，一般列出所有的生词、难句并配上相关拓展。 读者：高中或以上（基本上都是经典名篇，我努力选取易懂的）（江淮名师：孙三五编辑） 有句话说：大难不死，必有后福。在经历生死攸关的时刻后，能够有机会重新深刻地审视之前的生活，延续以往好的做法，改正错误的行为，使自己有机会为真正重要的人做更多的事情，也更好地爱护自己，这应该算是其中一种“福”吧。但是，并不是所有人都有二次审视自己的机会，所以，我们要做的是，珍惜当下，少留遗憾。 正文 A New Look from Borrowed Time 第二次生命的启示 Ralph Richmond 拉尔夫·里士满 Just ten years ago, I sat across the desk from a doctor with a stethoscope. “Yes,” he said, “there is a lesion in the left, upper lobe. You have a moderately advanced case…” I listened, stunned, as he continued, “You'll have to give up work at once and go to bed. Later on, we'll see.” He gave no assurances. Feeling like a man who in mid-career has suddenly been placed under sentence of death with an indefinite reprieve, I left the doctor's office, walked over to the park, and sat down on a bench, perhaps, as I then told myself, for the last time. I needed to think. In the next three days, I cleared up my